Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27
SOUTHERN GL.EANlNGS.

| friends 1t is believed that this action
prevented another outbreak in the town.
Mrs. I. T. Hudson, of Lebanon, Tenn,
attempted to commit suicide few days
since by taking laudanum. Medical relief
was immediately given, and there is some
hope of her recovery. Mrs. Hudson had
been in ill-health for some time.
! Adolph Zenneck, editor of the New Or
leans Mascot, a sensational weekly, was
fatally shot few days ago in his Office by
Dansea &nruen, who had been charged in
the Mascot with liaison with a married
| woman.
During street brawl in New Orleans a
few evenings since James Doran, local
politician, shot John Neil, clerk of the civil
District Court. Neil will probably die. A
political quarrel led to the affray. The
men were intoxicated.
Sheriff Webster, of Covington County,
Miss, arrested negro a few days who is
| supposed to be Wallace Burke, who is
wanted for criminal assault on lady at
Helena April %. He says his name is Sol
| Dodson.
| During the recent flood in the neighor-
| hood OF Macon, Ca, a number of cattle on
Mansfeld's farm attempted to swim out of
the swamp, and coming to high barbed-
| "hO ACASc, ~ uION0 Uu0ll DdCk. Iu6y tueU
swan over the bars and into the yard, and
found the hay-loft so near the level of the
water that they scrambled into it. When
| parties subsequently visited the farm they
| found that the waters had receded, leav-
ing the cows high and dry on top of the
hay. They had subsisted on this during
the days of the overflow, and were APP
parently quite contented with their elevat. :.
| ed station.
| The trial of Allie and q. 7. Young at
Morehead, KY, charged with conspiracy
| to kill Howard NJ. Logan, resulted in
verdict of mot guilty"
Six hundred coal miners in Laurel Coun-
| ty, KY, are out on strike. They demand
an increase of half cent bushel for
mining coal. A strike was expected at the
Jellico mines also.
There is brand Of cigars called "Evei
Faithful" A large dog is Autographed on
the cover, on his neck the above words are
printed. In the negro cemetery at Monte
yuma, Ca, one of the labels is pasted on
the head-b board of grave.
The venerable old French priest Of st.
Martin sville, La, Father Ange Marie Jan,
was found dead in bed few days ago.
He was born in Brittany, France, in 1902.
Ex-Treasurer Vincent of Alabama has
been found guilty of robbing the State
Treasury. Sentence will not be pronounced
until after trial on the remaining indict-
ments.
Jake Pettijohn, who was sentenced to be
hung thirty years ago at Atlanta, Ca, for
killing Clayton Vaughn, but escaped by
flight, was recently arrested in Indian
Territory and has been taken back for ex-
ecution.
Silas T. Land, an ex-convict, has been
committed to jail, at Nashville, Tenn, to
await trial for highway robbery and mur-
der, having been arrested by City Mar
shall Mize, Of Bowling Green, at Shaker
town, KY.
Rev. VIM. Fox, a minister of the NJ. E.
Church, South, who, in addition to filling
the pulpits of churches in Williamson and
adjoining counties, in Tennessee, also
keeps store, has been arrested for selling
whisky without paying the Government
license. Mr.. Fox was arraigned before a
Commissioner at Franklin, W ho bound him
over for trial at the next term of the
United States Court. The fact of the ar
rest since it has leaked out, has created
considerable talk Mr.. Fox is said to be a
strong prohibitiionist.
AT Rockingham, S. c., a few days ago,
the body of a well-known colored man,
Wesley Leak, was found in box-car on
the side track of the Carolina Central rail-
road. He had been stabbed through the
heart, and his body was lying in pool of
blood. The knife used was q butcher
knife.
A bloody affray took place at Coal Creek,
Tenn, few days ago, between David Ad-
kins and John Mehaffey and his young
brother Ben. Knives were used, and all
che parties were frig' fully butchered.
Ben Mehaffey died in few hours, and his
brother was not expected to live. Adkins
is under arrest.
While Willie Hawkins, aged three, and
Oliver Atkins, aged five, were playing un-
der the porch of a house in Memphis, Tenn,
few days ago, the elder child obtained
22-caliber pistol belonging to negro liv-
ing on the place, and pointing it at his
playmate, pulled the trigger. The bullet
pierced the little fellow just below the
heart, killing him almost instantly.
A farmer living ON the Peachtree road,
near Atlanta, Ca, says that the woods
near his house are alive with snakes. One
day recently he counted one hundred and
fifty crawlers during an hours stroll.
There were wood-snakes and rattlesnakes,
anu CulCheu-SudhcS anu a NCl ldi &c mum
ber of common blacksnakes. He thinks
that the late heavy rains washed them
from their holes.
Edward Johnson, the noted express
robber, who has been fugitive from
Tennessee for more than a year was ar
rested in Cincinnati few days since.
johnson and confederate twelve years
ago attacked an express messenger in
Memphis, and after beating him in most
brutal manner took a large amount of
money and fed.
William NJ. Shaw, a star-route contract
or of Jonesboro, Tenn, was arrested re-
Gently, charged with rifiing registered let
ters, and was bound to court in the sum OF
s., 1000. He jumped his bond and tried to
leave the country, but was pursued by
officers. They finally surrounded him in
barn, and rather than submit to arrest
he drew pocket-knife and severed the
jugular vein. He died almost instantly.
Mrs. Lily D. Murray, wife of DIR. MUIR
raw Of the United States Marine Hospital,
died at Biloxi, Miss, few days since. As
no personal intercourse is permitted be-
tween the quarantine station and the main
land, DIR. Murray and his family were lso--
lated from their relatives, which renders